Using VMware Storage IO Control

One of the new features of vSphere 4.1 is VMware Storage IO Control (SIOC) that will allow us to improve disk performance when using resource allocations on virtual machines. In vSphere we can assign different priorities to a virtual machine at the CPU level, RAM and disk; as well as CPU and RAM are prioritized only by the host that runs them, on disk access (shared) prioritize it proportionally among the rest of the hosts. Requirements: vSphere 4.1 Enterprise Plus, a single vCenter will manage the warehouses, Supported for FC and iSCSI (no NFS or RDM/RAW), Multiple Extensions Not Supported.

Installing and Configuring Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6

With Citrix Provisioning Services we can distribute servers or desktops over the network, called on-demand equipment provisioning. This provisioning will allow us to dynamically and accelerate the generation of new virtual desktops or servers at the desired time. Together with XenDesktop we will be able to manage virtual desktops as in VMware View with VMware Composer, distribute disk images that are obtained from a master virtual desktop with the Provisioning Services Agent to our users.

Migrating the Citrix XenDesktop database 5

In this document we will see how to migrate the Citrix XenDesktop DB 5 to another database server, sometimes it is necessary since we may start our implementation or pilot of XenDesktop with the database in the broker itself (on-premises with SQL Express) and we want to take it to the corresponding DB server,

Installing and configuring Citrix XenDesktop 5

This article that I had pending publication was the new version of Citrix's XenDesktop where you will see the installation and configuration, this is Citrix's quintessential desktop virtualization infrastructure. What's new in this version: New look, Role-based installation (just like Citrix Xenapp 6), IMA disappears, Active Directory Configuration Wizard disappears, New Management Consoles (Desktop Studio and Desktop Director), Dazzle (HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=4157), enabling XenClient for connections and desktop synchronization… With this we will be able to provide our users with virtual desktops, in order to have a thin client environment on our network. With the Citrix controller we can manage the connections to the desktops that interest us (Supports up to 15000 MV cada controller), we will be able to connect to virtual machines based on Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere or physical directly. Podremos unir diferentes tecnologías para la creación automática de escritorios como Citrix Provisioning Server o VMware […]

Using VMware ThinApp in VMware View 4.6

In this document, we'll look at how to integrate into VMware View 4.6 the applications we can distribute with VMware ThinApp, With this we will be able to achieve a clean distribution of equipment and distribute applications that users need through streaming with all the advantages that the combination of both technologies entails,

Using VMware View Composer 4.6

Con VMware View Composer conseguiremos distribuir escritorios a los usuarios a partir de una misma imagen para todos, sin tener que andar clonando una máquina virtual origen, or have one full virtual machine per user, This is, los escritorios que generemos a partir de esto no tendrán un disco duro virtual, If not a link’ to a replica of the original virtual hard drive. With this we will achieve impressive storage savings, For example, if we design that our Desktops we want them to have 20Gb of disk, You don't need to allocate that amount to each VM, if, for example, we are going to distribute 50 Desks: 50MV x 20Gb = 1TB of space for VDI or VMware View environment only, as this does not make much sense, VMware View Composer is used to deploy Desktops from a single image, these new Desktops will occupy only their swap memory plus space (optional) What […]

Using Offline Desktops in VMware View 4.6

Today we'll look at how to have VMware View desktops offline 4.6, for this we will need a VMware View server 4.6 Connection Server with the Transfer Server role. This server will simultaneously allow up to 20 Desktop Transfers (We can assemble another one for more capacity, High availability or balancing). With this we will be able to allow our users to work offline by downloading the desktops (by composer) on your laptop and when you are back online, upload that desktop back to the VMware View environment.

Using Events in VMware View 4.6

En caso de necesitar una gestión de eventos en el entorno VMware View 4.6 deberemos configurarlo de forma manual, con el fin de almacenar los LOG’s de nuestro entorno VDI y poder obtener más información en caso que tengamos problemas. En este breve documento configuraremos los eventos de VMware View 4.6 contra una base de datos SQL Server.

Allowing connection to our VMware View desktops 4.6 from abroad

By default, PCoIP connections are direct between the VMware View client and the final virtual desktop (where the View Agent resides), this from the version 4.6 changes allowing you to connect through a server that acts as a reverse proxy as it does not ensure the connectivity of the UDP frames that are sent if you do not redirect PCoIP through the Security Server. This Security Server will allow us to connect from the outside without VPN's and without having to open PCoIP to each virtual desktop, since he will be in charge of connecting to the Connection Server and the Connection Server to the virtual desktop.